"They are blue!" I said, annoyed that Blake would still think that my eyes are gray. Blake shook his head. "Nuh-uh. They're gray" he said. I'm pretty sure my eye twitched. We've been arguing all of lunch and our friends were either watching us, talking to each other, or in Phil's case, narrating it. He was making his voice sound all dramatic, like we were a sports match. "and Sara's eye twitched in anger as Blake still thinks her eyes are gray."
"They are!" Blake said defensively.
"I'm the narrator and what I say goes!" Phil said, crossing his arms in a stubborn way. Blake pouted
"Don't be a baby." Phil said, rolling his gray eyes. We've had this argument many times so we all get annoyed when it's brought up.
"Both of ya'll just shut up. And Phil you stopped narrating." I told him. He frowned.
"Darn…I was trying to narrate for all of lunch…"he said sounding disappointed. His blond hair had fallen in his eyes and he glared at it as if that would make it move. Before I could tell him that glaring won't help, our teacher, Coach Boyd, came over with two students it tow. One had curly blond hair and was wearing jeans and an orange t-shirt that said something in a different language. The other one had spikey black hair and she was wearing a ripped up army jacket, black leather pants and some chain jewelry. They both looked eerily familiar…
"Guys, we have some new students and I was wondering if you would show them around after lunch?" he asked. I looked at my friends around the table but most of them didn't notice Coach Boyd standing there with the two girls. Me, Phil, Blake, and Taylor were the only ones that noticed them. I was confused to why Coach Boyd would choose us to guide them. We all murmured agreements and Coach Boyd smiled his crooked smile and told the girls that we would help them around. The blond just smiled and nodded while the girl with spikey black hair just rolled her eyes. My hair rose on the back of my neck. Her eyes were an electric blue, a blue that I thought I would never see. I looked over to Blake to see he had recognized them too. I locked my eyes with his brown eyes and he asked me a silent question, Is it possible that they're…them? I gave a tiny shrug, it's not possible for them to be real, being book characters and all, but these people in front of us look a lot like them…. I was snapped out of my thoughts by the girls sitting down on the opposite side of the table. I looked up at them but my blond streaks in my hair got in my face. Instead of glaring at it like Phil did, I brushed it behind my ear.
"Well," the Blond started, "I suppose we should introduce ourselves, I'm Annabeth Chase." She gestured to the black haired girl next to her, "and this is Thalia."
Yeah well that confirmed my suspicion of them. I gave a little smug smile to Blake and he rolled his eyes clearly knowing what I was smiling about. He always thought it was pronounced THAI-LA and I argued with him saying it was THAH-LIA.
"So…."Phil trailed off not knowing what to say. Cue awkward silence.
"What do you think of the school so far?" Taylor supplied for him.
"Yeah," Phil agreed, "What do you?"
Thalia was answering their question but Annabeth didn't hear them. She was studying me with gray eyes. Ok now I'm positive that she's the Annabeth from the books. "What?" I asked warily, "Did Blake put ketchup in my hair again?" I asked feeling my hair.
Annabeth smiled at that and I frowned. "It wasn't funny….it took forever to get out of my hair…." I remembered, shuddering. That made everyone at the table laugh while I just pouted.
"Ya'll suck" I grumbled. Once they calmed down Annabeth decided to tell me why she was looking at me.
"You have an earphone in your ear," she said pointing, "and you're humming but it doesn't look like you noticed." I blinked. I didn't notice I was humming and I must have put the earphone in my ear subconsciously. The song "She's a Rebel" by Green Day was playing. Then I noticed I was humming the tune to the song and Thalia perked up.
"Is that Green Day?" she asked.
"Yep." I nodded.
"She's a Rebel?" she asked again.
"Who's a rebel?" Kevin asked just noticing Annabeth and Thalia. "And who are they?"
I shook my head at him. "Well while you were talking to Trace, Coach Boyd came over and asked us to show Annabeth and Thalia around after lunch."
"That reminds me," Taylor started, "what are your biggest fears?"
Annabeth and Thalia looked at each other and shrugged. Annabeth said, "Well I really hate spiders."
Thalia frowned and looked at Annabeth almost like she didn't want her to hear her fear. I looked at Blake and he seemed to notice it too.
"Hey Annabeth, come with me so you can meet the teachers."
Annabeth looked confused but went with him.
Thalia looked relieved. "How did you know that I didn't want to tell her?" she asked
"The look on your face gave it away. So what is your fear?"
"Herghs." She mumbled
"Huh?" we all asked at the same time.
"Hirgts" she said a little louder
"What?" she was really confusing my friends that haven't read the Percy Jackson books
I sighed. "She said heights."
Kevin nodded, but then looked confused. "What's so bad about that?" he asked. I was frantically shaking my head trying to warn him but he didn't notice. Thalia's death glare really was scary. I thought it was just exaggerated in the books. I wonder if Annabeth's was equally as scary. Kevin's blue eyes showed fear for a split second but he covered it up, but he refused to make eye contact with her for the rest of the day. Blake and Annabeth came back talking about how Coach Hamilton was rude. I snickered at Kevin's reaction to Thalia's glare and he glared at me and opened his mouth to say something, but before he could get a chance the bell rang. Well…not really a bell more like an electronic beep. I sighed in relief,
"Saved by the bell…" I murmured to Blake, who was closest to me. He just chuckled. We all got up and Phil stretched causing his back to crack and pop. I cringed, hating that noise. Annabeth took notice of this and whispered something to Thalia.
"Dude…" I said wincing as his back popped again, "that is so not good for your back." He just grinned.
"Probably isn't." He agreed, "But makes my back feel better"
"She's right you know." Annabeth said. "You could pinch a nerve and hurt yourself."
He shrugged it off. "I'll be fine." He said.
"Fine, but when you injure yourself don't come crying to me." I told him, walking away.
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"Ok Annabeth, Thalia, let me see your schedules." I told them once we got back to Coach Boyd's class.
They handed both of theirs over and I quickly scanned them. Annabeth and Thalia had four classes together and I had the same schedule as Thalia, while Phil had the same schedule as Annabeth. I looked around the hallways for Phil so he can show Annabeth her next class. I rolled my eyes. With him being the tallest guy in the grade it wasn't hard finding him. I grabbed his red collared shirt and dragged him away from poster advertising W.o.W. He was too dazed from staring at the poster to notice that it was getting farther away. I snapped my fingers in front of his face.
"Huh? What?" he asked, looking around.
"You were daydreaming…again." I told him
He gave a sheepish smile, "Sorry, but just think about the new graphics an-"
"LALALALALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" I sang rather childishly, with my fingers in my ears.
He just chuckled at my behavior because it is the exact same thing he would do if I started rambling about something I like. "Okay what did you need me here for?" he asked
I frowned, "What?" I asked rather loudly.
"I said what did you need me for?" he repeated louder.
"Huh?" I asked again. For some reason I couldn't hear him…I wonder wh-oh….hehe oops…
I unplugged my ears and I felt my face heat up a little, "Heh…sorry I still had my ears plugged…"
Phil shook his head. "Only you…" he trailed off.
"Oh yeah! You have the same classes with Annabeth and you will have to show her around for the rest of the day." I told him
Phil said he would and we went to get Annabeth and Thalia. I took Thalia to Language Arts while Phil took Annabeth to Math, which made him frown disappointedly and her to smile happily. Thalia and I walked into the L.A. classroom before everyone was there and I was racking my brain trying to remember where an empty seat was.
"Ah ha!" I said. Thalia looked at me a little weirdly. I rolled my eyes at her. "There's an empty seat over there," I said pointing behind a tall and lanky red-haired boy, "behind Jonathon. I was racking my brain trying to remember where one was and that's why I said ah ha." I explained to her.
Realization dawned on her face, "Oooh."
"By the way Mrs. Thompson makes you say 'May I' instead of 'Can I' like 'Can I go to the bathroom' and she's really strict about it, but other than that she's fine" I told her the number one rule in Mrs. Thompson's class but something's nagging in the back of my mind that I forgot to tell her. Oh well…must not be important if I forgot it. The electronic bell rang again signaling that we had to get to class. All of the students in the hall (which was pretty much the whole grade) ran to get to their class or face an angry teacher. Mrs. Thompson came in in her usual outfit, a T-shirt and black jeans with her platinum blond hair down. I then remembered what I was gonna tell Thalia and my face paled. Turns out it was important. I cursed under myself under my breath about being so forgetful. Taylor, noticing this action, leaned over and asked, "Forgot to tell her about the 'initiation'?" she put air quotes around initiation.
Looking down I replied, "Yep, and Thalia's gonna kill me."
Taylor looked amused by what I said, "You've only known the girl for 50 minutes and she'll already want to kill you. That's a new record, Sara."
I glared at her, "Shut up."
Mrs. Thompson sat down at her desk and smiled at us. "Okay guys, it looks like we have a new student." She said with a glint in her eyes that was usually there when we talked about pranking Hamilton, our math teacher, "and you know what that means."
Everyone looked at Thalia, grinning wickedly and she looked shocked. She looked at me confused, but I just bit my lip and mouthed, I'm sorry. The 'Initiation' is facing your worst fear for the entire 90 minutes of class. You would think it would be against the rules but the Principal thought it was a funny idea and allowed us to do it. How do we figure out the new student's worse fear? They ask the person showing them around to ask what the student fears are, like what Taylor did at lunch. Mrs. Thompson looked around.
"Who showed her around so far?" she asked.
I shrunk down in my seat. No way am I going to confess, just to have Thalia hate me and try to kill me, I like living, thank you very much. Taylor on the other hand had no such fear and raised her hand, then held my hand up too. I just groaned and sunk down further in my seat, tugging my hand back with me. Unfortunately, Taylor was pretty strong and I couldn't yank my hand down before Mrs. Thompson saw us.
"So Taylor, you and Sara showed her around so far?" she asked
Taylor nodded and said yeah, while I just mumbled something unintelligent, trying to hide behind my North Face jacket. I glanced at Thalia though, just to see her glaring at us. Great, I thought, now I have the daughter of ZEUS angry with me. Just fan-freakin-tastic!
"So," Mrs. Thompson started, "I assume you've already asked her what her biggest fear is?"
Thalia paled considerably, and I cringed, already imagining what it's going to feel like getting struck by lightning. Thalia then glared at me and Taylor making us both flinch. I swear I just saw electricity crackle in her eyes. I think Taylor is having second thoughts.
"Ummmm…" we both said.
"You didn't?" Mrs. Thompson asked, confused.
"Um, we did-"
"But we can't remember what it was." I lied smoothly. Hey whenever you have Blake as a friend you learn a thing or two.
Everyone looked disappointed with our answer and either groaned, went 'aww…' or 'dang', or did both. Thalia on the other hand looked relieved.
"Wait," Mrs. Thompson said, "how did you forget so quickly?"
I paled a little bit. "Oh, well we asked her when she got here which was at the beginning of lunch, and me and Taylor are really forgetful people. Just ask our friends!" the few friends we had in the class nodded their heads and I gestured to them as if to say, see? Mrs. Thompson looked like she didn't believe most of our story, but she dropped it.
"Ok then, what we'll be learning today is…."
I zoned out for the rest of class. It's close to Christmas break anyway. We won't be having any more tests, so we're just reviewing stuff so we won't forget it. I let my mind wander to why Annabeth and Thalia came to our small town….it's obvious that Thalia had just turned human. That's why she was wearing black stuff and not silver because she's not a hunter yet. So shouldn't she be in Camp Half-Blood training? The only reason I can think of them coming here is if….no that's impossible. No one here has ADHD or Dyslexia, and even if they did there is no way that Demigods are real. Maybe it's just sheer luck that these two people have the same names as book characters. While I was thinking I didn't notice the bell ring or what Taylor was about to do.
"Whoa!" I yelled surprised. I felt like I was falling and waved my arms around, trying to regain my balance, but failing and looking like a penguin trying to fly. Then I found myself off of the comfort of my chair and on the cold ground. I looked around surprised, just to see Taylor and Thalia laughing their butts off.
"Seriously?" I asked, "Do you hate me or something?"
"No." Taylor managed to say after she stopped laughing, "It's just that you were off in your own little world and we couldn't get you to respond any other way."
"Oh and saying 'Hey Sara, come on its time to go!' doesn't work?"
"Nope." she said, popping the 'p'.
I just sighed, picked up my backpack and books, and left the classroom with Taylor and Thalia still laughing. We passed Blake in the hallway so I grabbed his sleeve and pulled him aside.
"What?" he asked rather irritably
"I think I know why they're here."
"Oh?" he said, suddenly interested, "Why?"
"They're looking for demigods." I said in a duh tone.
He frowned, "Wait….do you think that we're the half-bloods their looking for?"
I was shocked. That hadn't occurred to me since we didn't have ADHD or Dyslexia, but maybe Thalia manipulated the mist so Coach Boyd would take them to us instead of any other kids….
"Ok I'm confused….." I groaned, "I guess I'll see you after class."
I walked into math to see Taylor and Thalia talking about something. Great they get to sit in the back while I sit in the very front. I sat my stuff down and walked over to them.
"-so I do get to keep my underwear?" Taylor asked.
I just gave them a 'What the crap' look and backed up slowly. They looked at each other and cracked up. They were trying to say something, but too busy laughing to speak.
"Oh…oh gosh…." Taylor said, wiping a tear from her eye, "your face was hilarious!"
"Well what would you look like if you only heard that line in the conversation?"
Now Thalia spoke up, "Probably the same way."
"Okay class, get in your seats! Hurry, Hurry!" a voice yelled and clapped as if that would make us faster.
"We're goin', we're goin'!" I said, sitting down, "Hey Hamilton."
He looked at me and with a fake serious face, he said, "That's Coach Hamilton to you."
I mock saluted and said, "Yes sir!"
He grinned and turned to the little class we had today. For some reason a lot of people weren't here today. Coach Hamilton looked kind of concerned about that too. He just sighed and told us to partner up with no more than three people, so me, Taylor, and Thalia partnered up. Unfortunately, I had to do most of the work because Thalia kept getting the numbers backwards and Taylor is just…Taylor. While I was trying to find the square root of 250 the desk shook suddenly.
I looked at Thalia and Taylor. "Did you just feel that?" I asked
They both looked confused. "Feel what?" They asked at the same time.
The desk shook again, but this time it made me come of my chair a little. Taylor and Thalia looked surprised.
"Never mind." They both said.
"What is that?" I whispered, pointing outside.
Thalia's eyes widened and she cursed but it was in another language, and I understood it! Oooh. Thalia has a potty mouth. The thing coming toward us was easily 8 foot tall, had a huge club it was dragging on the ground, and had one, bloodshot eye in the middle of its forehead. Cyclops. Then something weird happened. The monster seemed to grow 5 feet taller. I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped when I saw that. Taylor still looked confused, probably thinking this is a joke that Blake and I are pulling on her and Thalia was rubbing the silver bracelet on her arm.
"That….that's a Cyc-"I was cut off by Thalia's hand on my mouth.
"Don't say its name," she ordered, "names have power."
Taylor rolled her eyes, "Please, it's obviously another prank that you and Blake are pulling, isn't it Sara?"
I was right. I shook my head, "Not this time Taylor."
She seemed to be able to tell I wasn't lying and paled. "Wait a minute, does this mean the books you read are real?"
"Yeah I think they are." I said, glancing at Thalia. Taylor seemed to get the message and gave me a look that clearly said, you are gonna explain this to me.
"Wait what books?" Thalia asked.
"Oh um…I read a lot of mythology books."
"Oh. Okay then."
Thalia looked like she was debating whether or not to do something. Apparently she gave in because she sighed and started walking to Coach Hamilton, glancing outside every couple of seconds. Me and Taylor got up and walked with her.
"What is she doing?" Taylor whispered to me
"No clue." I wasn't really paying attention because the Cyclops was getting closer.
I poked Thalia and whispered, "Um…it's getting closer."
"I know." She whispered back.
She walked up to Coach Hamilton and snapped her fingers. I felt a weird breeze that came out of nowhere.
"Coach Hamilton, Sara, Taylor, and I have been called to leave early, right?"
Hamilton's eyes were misted over. He gave a nod and turned back to his work, still hazy eyed. My jaw dropped at that. How did she-oh wait…the mist. We walked out and headed toward Annabeth's class. Thalia knocked on the door and waited for someone to open it.
"Come in!" Mrs. Thompson yelled.
We opened the door to see Mrs. Thompson talking about semicolons.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Um, Coach Hamilton wanted some students for some reason." Taylor lied. She was getting better and better at that every day.
"Do you know why he needs them?"
"Nope. He doesn't tell us anything anymore."
"Do you know who he wants?"
"Ok he told us that. He wanted Annabeth, Phil, and Blake." Thalia said.
Mrs. Thompson nodded and waved at those three to leave. Phil and Blake looked kind of pale for some reason. The ground shook again. The Cyclops was getting closer. We walked calmly out as if nothing was wrong but when the door shut, we made a mad dash for the exit.
"Wait!" I stopped them.
"What?" Thalia and Annabeth asked, irritably.
"We can't go that way. The school secretary-person-thingy, will see us! We need to go this way by the gym!" I pointed down the hallway.
"School secretary-person-thingy?" Blake asked me when he caught up.
"Yup." I grinned
We made a beeline for the door, not noticing that a teacher's door was open.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
"Oh crap…." I muttered.
The teacher started running after us but wasn't very fast. We made it to the door and used a conveniently placed tree branch to block the door. The teacher was pounding on the door yelling about how much trouble we would be in and blah, blah, blah.
"Ok. Now what?" Blake asked.
I was about to answer him but Thalia tapped her bracelet and it transformed into a shield with the most hideous face on it I've ever seen or probably will see.
"Whoa!" I said and backed up.
Annabeth took a knife out from her sleeve and chucked a bow and a quiver full of arrows at me.
"What am I supposed to do with this?"
"What do you think? Have a tea party? Fire arrows at the Cyclops!"
"I don't know how to shoot arrows!"
"Just guess then!"
Annabeth and Thalia charged the Cyclops while it roared with anger. Taylor stood stiff with fear while Blake used a sword that he never had before to help them. Phil looked around for a weapon but couldn't find anything. He resorted to throwing rocks at the monster. I looked at the weapon in my hands. I had no idea how to fire a bow. I never even had any archery practice, unless you call a plastic bow and plastic arrows with suction cups that didn't even fire and inch practice. I took a deep breath and notched an arrow with shaky hands. I forced myself to be steady. Pulled back the arrow…and fired. The arrow hit the Cyclops right in the eye.
"That's gotta hurt…" Phil said, wincing and rubbing one of his eyes.
The Cyclops let out an unearthly shriek and melted into a golden powder that was blown away in the wind.
"Now," Taylor said, "you tell us who you are"
A.N.
How was that? This is my first story and I'm wondering if I should continue it. If it sucks I don't want to get flamed at because of it, and if I do continue it the chapters might not be as long as this one. I just couldn't find a right place to leave off. Also I don't know how it will show up on fanfiction because like I said I'm still new to it.